Germany's parliament is establishing a weapons registry. The
decision came on the tenth anniversary of a school massacre, but is part
of an EU plan for Europe-wide gun registration.
On the morning of April 26, 2002, a 19-year-old who had been expelled
from Gutenberg High School in the eastern German city of Erfurt began a
deadly rampage. Over the course of two hours, he systematically stalked
his former school's corridors and classrooms. The perpetrator killed 12
teachers, one secretary, one police officer and two students before
taking his own life. Germany's first school shooting put the country
into a state of shock, and triggered an earnest debate on how to toughen
gun laws.
Exactly ten years after the massacre, Germany's lower house of
parliament, the Bundestag, decided to establish a central weapons
registry. It will gather information from the 600 offices that issue
weapons permits throughout Germany in one place.
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